About Me

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I am Adityan.

I am a Data Engineer at Poshmark, a fast growing startup in the Silicon Valley. I am also a chess ninja, a health freak and a black belt in Karate. I’m obsessed with building things and even more obsessed with making things better.

Education

I graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a B.S. in Computer Science. I have taken courses in Machine learning, Computer security, Networking, Data science, Algorithms, Data structures, Computer Architecture.

Prior to transferring to the University at Buffalo, I was a mathematics major at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, which is one of the top engineering schools in India. I took courses in Graph theory, Discrete Mathematics, Ordinary Differential Equations, Optimization, Economics, Operations Research, and Probability and Statistics.

Experience

Data Engineer @ Poshmark

April 9, 2018

Building data pipelines in Scala, Apache Spark.Poshmark is the largest social marketplace for fashion where anyone can buy, sell and share their style with others.

Research Assistant at EPFL Switzerland

September 4, 2017

Worked in the Laboratory of Communications and Applications (LCA1) under Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux. Spent 3 months in Lausanne, Switzerland.

SDE Intern at Amazon

May 23, 2017

I am working with the security intelligence group under the Information security team which deals with big data and security breaches.

Software Engineering Intern at Trading Technologies

June 6, 2016

Created, ran and maintained automated unit tests based on the company’s algorithmic trading product called ADL. Learned to create custom ADL trading algorithms, deploy and run them in the TT platform.

Research Assistant at University at Buffalo

March 1, 2016

Worked on a new implementation to accurately account for the asynchronous usage of resources in mobile systems.

Google Summer of Code 2015

May 25, 2015

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. I worked with KDE, a popular linux desktop environment.

Projects

Google Summer of Code 2015 with KDE

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. I worked on a project in KStars, an open source desktop planetarium software under the KDE Education project. My work involved coding constellation art forms for KStars. I worked with C++, Qt Libraries, and the KStars API. All the code was perfected, and pushed to the KStars git repository. Click here to read my blog posts about my project.

CSE 474 Machine Learning

Implemented a handwriting classifier using a multilayer perceptron. It produced a 97% accuracy using 50,000 images from the MNIST database.

Linux

Blog

below are some recent posts

With more than a month remaining, my Google Summer of Code project has almost come to an end! KStars is now able to display all 88 western constellations. I want to thank my mentor, Jasem, for helping me by making a dialog box that would display constellation images with parameters in real time. This made(…)

So Google Summer of Code midterms are here. I want to thank my mentor, Jasem, for helping me out. I am now able to successfully display one constellation image, that is the Andromeda constellation. Currently, the image is displayed, but a lot of work needs to be done on positioning the image, and rotating the(…)

I haven’t updated my blog in a while. A quick summary of what I have done till now follows. I have created another class called ConstArtComponent. This will be a child of SkyComponent. This class will manage all different sky cultures, by maintaining a QList<ConstellationsArt> for different sky cultures. I will have to write a(…)

This is the first week of Google Summer of Code. The coding period began officially on the 25th of May. And I received my first paycheck of $500 from Google! I am already learning new things everyday, which makes this project very exciting! What I have done till now is collect constellation artwork used in(…)

Hi folks! I have been spending a lot of time with KStars lately. I will write a detailed account on the work done till now, but here’s something I found interesting. This, I think is a handy ‘precautionary’ trick that every newbie should implement to avoid pushing to the wrong git repo/branch. Here’s what you(…)

Hi folks! So this blog post is kinda a test post. I just git pushed the RSS feed from my blog to Planet KDE, KDE’s blog aggregator. Although I can see it in the git log here, I just want to make sure that my posts appear in real time on Planet KDE. If this(…)

So I am almost done with my college exams. They were getting in the way, and I am now relieved that I can start devoting all my time to my project with KDE. In this post I intend to briefly describe what my project is all about. I am going to be adding ‘Constellation Art’ unto(…)

Flip bits, not burgers! So my proposal was selected for Google Summer of Code 2015 under the organisation KDE! What is Google Summer of Code? Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. Basically Google shortlists a number of organisations with open source coding(…)